SUNSPOTS
Multiple Sunspots in Active Region 2765. The sun has been relatively active the past few days. Shot this morning and looking forward to following how these develop over the next few days. Hopefully the weather cooperates. The last few days have been overcast and rainy. Will share more images of the same region from a couple of days ago, soon. 🙂
Swipe to see annotations and a close up of the region.
Takahashi FS-60Q 60mm refractor | f/10 | Thousand Oaks Solarlite Solar Fikter | Canon EOS R | ISO 200 | 51x1/200 exp | AS! | Registax | Lr & Ps

IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula or the λ Centauri Nebula, is an open cluster with an associated emission nebula found in the constellation Centaurus, near the star λ Centauri. It features Bok globules, which are frequently a site of active star formation.
This photo was basically a test to see what would happen. Normally shooting under a full moon is a bad idea for astro unless you have very specific narrowband filters. I only had a city light suppression filter so wasn't holding much hope of getting anything good. The results are very interesting to me. I didn't expect to get as much star colour as I did which was great, I think that may have had to do with the reduced ISO I used due to the brightness of the sky. Something to trial more of in the future.
I'm interested to see if anyone else see's the running chicken. I certainly do so let me know if you do or don't and I'll show you what I see 🙂
Technical Data for those interested. Skywatcher Evostar 72ED Telescope, HEQ5 Mount, Modified Canon 1100d camera, ZWO Guide cam and scope, Stellamira Field Flattener, Optolong CLS-CCD Filter, Laptop running PHD2 for guiding and Astro Photography Tool for image capture and target finding.
3hours of integration, 45 x 4minute exposures, 15 x 4 min darks, 29 bias frames.
This coming weekend should have no moon so hopefully the clouds clear off and I can get some really good nights in for you all to enjoy. Until then, stay safe and clear skies 🙂
Murray
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Moonset!
A crescent Moon is about to sink under the western horizon in this sea and night skyscape. So close to moonset, the moonlight is reddened and dimmed by the low, long line-of-sight across the Atlantic. But near the center of the frame Venus still shines brightly, its light reflected in calm ocean waters. The celestial beacon above the brilliant evening star is bright planet Jupiter.
Image by @vikaschanderastrophotography
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2 weeks ago

Have you ever seen a comet?⠀
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Newly captured comet SWAN has an amazing tail expanding millions of kilometers across our system!☄️ ⠀
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The comet came in from the outer #SolarSystem and has just passed inside the orbit of the Earth. This outgassing interplanetary iceberg passed its closest to the Earth on May 13, and closest to the Sun on May 27. The #comet was first noticed in late March by an #astronomy enthusiast looking through images taken by NASA's Sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft, and is named for this spacecraft's Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN ) camera. The featured image, taken from the dark skies in Namibia in mid-April, captured Comet SWAN's green-glowing coma and unexpectedly long, detailed, and blue ion-tail. Although the brightness of comets are notoriously hard to predict, some models have Comet SWAN becoming bright enough to see with the unaided eye during June.⠀
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📸Image Credit & Copyright: Gerald Rhemann⠀
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4 days ago

This is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. Take by @gibsonpics Who is super awesome for sharing all his data with everyone! I decided to take a shot at processing it. It was a bit time consuming as the data was a bit larger than what I’m used to dealing with. Pretty happy with how it turned out! lots of detail. From this great data. Hope you all enjoy. Taken with The Fuji GFX100

1 weeks ago

Just another nice artwork you might enjoy : ) What it means, or what it depicts, is totally up to you.
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